To WHom It May Concern, A few months ago I would be recommending Intel based systems, but since I went AMD in December. To tell you the truth I will not go back to to Intel. I have seen better performance and Winblows of all things runs more stable. My AMD Duron 800 out performas my old P3 500 by atleast 50% if not more.
Zonker your price estimate is just about right give or take a 100 dollars. Once again I highly recommend going AMD. They are faster and better for gaming. I used to get like 60 to 70FPS in Half Life and 60 to 70FPS in Quake 3, but when I went to AMD I saw a 20 to 30FPS increase in my gaming when running Quake 3 Demo. In half life I had to up my cl_fpsmax to 200, because I was getting dropped from server as soon as I hit 100FPS. GO AMD! If you dont have the money for an Athlon go Duron just as fast. Thanks, Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexander Isacson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 7:56 AM Subject: Re: Pentium 4 > Just to add my 2 cents... > > > I'm about to buy a new computer. I have been offered a > > really good deal on a P4 system. > > But since the architecture is so different from previous > > pentiums I am a little hecitant. > > Unless you've been offered a REALLY good deal, it's > likely worse than the cost of an Athlon. The price > differential between Athlons and P4s and high-end P3s > is pretty steep. > > > Will I have to recompile all major components in > > order to get decent speed with the p4? > > Someone else has already addressed this, but I thought I > might throw in a piece of advice for anyone who upgrades > often, or might reconfigure their system... > > If you compile an optimized kernel for a specific > architechture, like i686, be sure to keep a working > "vanilla" kernel in case you have to swap the disk to > another computer with a different architechture. If you > have a hardware failure, for instance, and need to move > the disk with Debian from an Athlon system to a Pentium Pro > or something, it won't boot. This might only happen to > a small number of people, but it's darn frustrating in an > emergency. > > > Will there be special p4-debs? > > Unlikely. > > > Whats the best thing to do? Buy an AMD-CPU instead? > > I just thought I'd get an opinion from you guys before I spend all my money. > > Buy an AMD...it's a MUCH better investment. And, I'd > recommend buying the parts and putting it together > yourself rather than buying a complete system. > > The 1GHz Athlons are at a pretty reasonable price point > right now, (I bought mine when it was semi-reasonable) > you should be able to put together a system with a > 30GB ATA 100 drive, 256MB of 133 MHz RAM and a decent > AGP video card for well under $1,000. > > Good luck! > > Zonker > > -- > Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 43599611 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > "Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, doctor, > and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." > -- Elwood P. Dowd > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
